Astronomers using data from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and other observatories around the world have discovered ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded. A massive ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic ...

Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole and is gravitationally torn apart by tidal forces. The resulting stellar debris forms an accretion ...

Astronomers captured the universe’s brightest, longest-lasting stellar explosions, where massive stars are torn apart by ...

One of the ENTs studied in this work, named Gaia18cdj, released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on ...

Astronomers discovered a new class of cosmic explosions known as "extreme nuclear transients" that are the most powerful ...